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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03264	A short dialogue concerning the plagues infection Published to preserue bloud, through the blessing of God.	Balmford, James, b. 1556.	1603 (1603)	STC 1338; ESTC S100768	34,749	98

garments and therefore if it fal out so that they sit together their fearefull conceipt may bréede the Plague Profess O sir are you of that mind that the Plague may be in a garment and the partie not sicke and that one may take the Plague onely with feare and do you beare with such a conceipt Preach No I do not But I déeme them guiltie of their owne bane who take it with such a conceipt And yet I thinke euery charitable Christian will grieue at the heart that he should be the occasion of such a fright and could wish that he had rather béen from the church a moneth especially being in some sort Gods prisoner and the affrighted hauing likelyhoods that either he or his garment might be infected That a garment may be infected and the Plague taken onely by feare experience and reason do make manifest Concerning the former it hath béene proued that clothes of infected persons layed vp and not well ayred being opened though a yéere or more after haue instantly renewed the Plague Againe we perceiue by the smell that garments wil retaine the sent of Wormewood or muske for a long time the cause is not in the sent by it selfe considered but in the ayre which is the subiect of the sent The plague in a garment is a poysoned aire being according to the nature thereof called by the learned the Death of the ayre procéeding from the partie infected and infecting the garment though not perceiued by smell as the open cléere and wholesome ayre of the heauens is healthfull for the body though not perceiued by smell Lastly leprosie infecteth garments and he that sléepeth or eateth in an house shut vp for leprosie must wash his clothes which argueth that infection may be by the ayre sith a man may eate in the house and not touch the walles infected If Leprosie be so contagious much more the Plague which is a stronger poyson because it infecteth and killeth Profess This is more then euer I heard and considered and I think it reasonable but I cannot conceiue how the garment can be infected and yet the person that weareth it escape the Plague Preach I will shew you that in a word Do you not consider that either the infection may be but weake or the party of a strong and healthfull constitution Cinders will not set fuell on fire so soone as burning coles neither will gréene wood be so soone kindled as chips and drie deale-boord Profess I now see and in some sort assent to your opinion proceed therefore I pray you to giue reasons why by onely feare a man may be infected with the Plague Preach The spirit of a man will sustaine his infirmities but a wounded spirit who can beare it saith Salomon By spirit here is meant a comfortable heart which animateth a man in all troubles but if that fayle hée is soone ouerthrowne From the heart procéed as Phisitions say vitall spirits whereby man is made actiue and couragious If they by feare be inforced to retire inward the outward parts be left infirme as may appeare by the palenesse and trembling of one in great feare so that as enemies easily scale the walles of a towne abandoned by souldiers so the Plague especially in a season disposed to infection doth find readie passage into the outward parts of a man destitute by feare of the vitall spirits which should correct the same Againe as faith maketh vs partakers of Gods helping hand so vnbeléefe depriueth vs thereof feare aduersarie to faith pulleth to the wicked the euill which he feareth Profess By this conference I haue learned to feare more then I haue done and yet to take heed of feare to feare because the plague may be caried about in garments and therefore may infect me keeping company with one that is cōuersant with the infected I being peraduenture not of so strong a constitutiō as the party To take heede of feare lest I be guiltie of mine owne bane Preach Your collection is good especially if you remember the distinction of feare in that sence which I haue often taught it to wit Feare is contrary either to Security and so it may be called Héedfulnesse or to Faith and so it is cousin germain to Despaire But hoping that now you see our doctrine against vnruly and vncharitable going abroad of the infécted either in person or garments not to be a checke to Pietie and Charitie I pray you tell me what you can say for vnnecessarie and desperate running to the sicke and buried of the Plague Profess What I tell you be it without offence that many maruell I will not say cry out that Preachers who should be examples of loue and faith in visiting the sick according to their office do yet so flatly speake against the expresse words of Christ For doth not he say That we shall be iudged at the last day according to our workes of charity and amongst the rest our visiting or not visiting the sicke Preach O neighbour you now lay on loade I must therefore ease a litle the shoulders of Preachers whom you charge heauily for not visiting the sick of the Plague before I can nimbly encounter your maine obiection Surely ye Professours who so vrge this pretended dutie are farre from the louing care and kindnesse of the Israelites who would not suffer Dauid to hazard himselfe in battell lest if he being woorth tenne thousand of them were slaine and the light of Israel should be put out Againe ye forget that Christ said to him that desired to burie his father Follow thou me let the dead burie their dead If ye did consider this well you could not but thinke that as Paule said Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach so Preachers may say Christ hath sent vs not to visite the sicke but to preach and thereupon cōclude that the lesse dutie if a dutie especially being daungerous must giue place to the greater and the visiting of a few sicke and lesse capable of instruction must giue place to the teaching of the whole congregation and more capable of doctrine and comfort Now if they visite euery one that is sicke how can they attend vnto reading and follow Christ in the most proper and necessarie worke of the ministerie Lastly I sée not but herein I humbly submit mine opinion to the Church that visiting the sicke is a proper dutie of a Minister as he is a Minister For as none can ordaine officers in the Church but Christ so none as I am perswaded can prescribe duties to those officers but Christ But I cannot find where Christ prescribeth visiting of the sicke as a Ministers dutie If not Christ why should any surcharge Ministers and the rather because they are not no not the best sufficient for duties prescribed Did not the Apostles pronounce it an vnmeet thing to be hindred from giuing themselues continually to prayer and to

and Dragon but the former is true therefore the latter If then the pestilence be dangerous to one that is in the middest of thousands dying thereof it must néedes be so by contagion as may further appeare in that it is called noisome and in that it is said it shall not come neare thee But let vs trie the strength of the former part of that huge argument layed downe in this forme Many haue bene with the sicke of the plague when they swet c. yet are not infected therefore it is not contagious Certaine Priests said to a Philosopher All these monuments which you sée in this Temple be in remembrance of so many deliuered from shipwracke by prayer to the God of this Temple But quoth the Philosopher can you shew me how many prayed and yet perished As the Philosophers answer was stronger against their God then the Priests obseruation was for their God so it maketh much more to proue the plague to be contagious to say an hundred if not a thousand infected by being where the plague is may be brought for one that escaped Againe if that argument be good then these be as good Many haue had the plague sores and were sick and yet died not therefore the plague is not in it owne nature mortall Many run vpon the mouth of a canon and escape therfore canon shot is not murthering Profess We see the canon shot to kil but we see not the Plague to infect Preach By common experience it is obserued that souring of drinke and other effects follow thunder wherunto they are attributed and children take the small pockes comming where they be though it be not séene how thunder and being where small pocks are cause such effects Why then should we not feare aswell the pestilence that walketh in darknes as the plague that destroyeth at noone day sith by common experience it is obserued that thousands fall sicke of the plague presently vpon their being where it is though it be not séene how the infectiō is conueyed Truly the commō people herein do litle differ from brute beasts in that for the most part they are moued by sense and not by reason Prof. I feare it is so in too many for going amongst thē I hardly perceiue one of ten once looke for help though they haue a rising of the plague in some part of their body vntil they be heart sick then often they seeke for help too late Whereas if in reasō they wold cōsider that as the plague may be some good time in the garmēt before it infect the outward parts so it may be in the flesh a good while before it strike the very heart no doubt they wold betime preuent the worst Through which default I am perswaded hundreds do perish daily but commending such to Gods gracious prouidence I pray you tell me what causes are giuen by the learned why so many escape though they be continually in so great daunger of the Plague as hath bene said Preach There be causes both naturall and diuine For naturall causes I referre you to learned Phisitians Onely I will shew you somewhat which euery reasonable man as I thinke may conceiue Before any qualitie good or bad can qualifie any subiect the subiect must be first disposed thereunto or capable thereof The Salamander liueth in the fire though the flie playing with the flame of a candle is consumed therewith Gun powder takes fire presently but so doth not chalke So persons of a tender constitution or corrupt humours sooner take the Plague then those that be of a strong constitution sound bodies as hath bene said some infected are much fuller of poisonfull corruption then other The infirmities of many women in trauell and other diseases turne vnto the Plague We sée few auncient people die in comparison of children and the younger sort Lastly of those that kéepe a good diet haue cleane and swéet kéeping liue in a good aire vse reasonable and seasonable preseruatiues and be not pestred many in one house or haue conuenient house-roome for their houshold we see few infected in comparison of those that faile in all these good meanes of preseruation and yet will thrust themselues into danger This well considered may not an argument be drawn from hence to proue euen by reason that the Plague is not so infectiue as faithlesse people conceiue and therefore they need not feare the Plague so extreamely as they do But I will procéed to the diuine causes or reasons The chiefe whereof is this God worketh al things after the counsell of his owne will and therefore he hath mercie on whome he will haue mercie and none shall die but they who are appointed For though the Pharisies sought to lay hands on Christ yet they could not before the appointed time came and therefore be the Plague neuer so contagious in it owne nature none can be smitten with it but those whom God hath specially appointed Profess Here I remember an opinion of some people with whom I conuerse whereby they seeme to thēselues to reconcile the difference touching the Plagues infection and that is this Let one say they go neuer so daungerously where the Plague is he cannot die before his time and yet indeed he may take the sicknesse What thinke you of this opinion Preach What thinke I of it as I do of other opinions which brain-sicke men despising the word of God and ministerie thereof do forge in their owne phantasticall braine-pans How wittie soeuer it séeme to them I tel you it sauoureth strongly of Epicurisme For doth God dispose of capitall and principall and not of lesse matters as Epicures dreame Shall we say The issues of death belong to the Lord and shall we doubt with the Philistims whether sicknesse be by chaunce If they knew the Scriptures they might learne that God forgetteth not sparrowes but so regardeth them that without him not one of them falleth to the ground Doubtlesse Gods prouidence is the same though not alike manifest in litle and great matters Profess The more I conferre with you the more I perceiue I thank God for it the presumptuous wit of foolish men and herein I see euidently that they measure the infinite prouidence of God by the shallownesse of their owne capacitie The Lord graunt vs grace to vnderstand according to sobrietie I haue another argument against the opinion of infection from the prouidence of God but I would first heare some mo causes or reasons why so many escape so great danger of infection Preach Neighbour you still harpe vpon so many so many I tell you they be few or nonein comparison of them who daily are infected by being within daunger of the Plague As for your desire to heare mo causes I am content to satisfie the same But I must first tel you that he is happy who can know the causes of things to the end you may content your selfe with